Posted on 10/22/2021 3:44:23 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
A third wrote: “Snakes on a crane.”
It is not clear what kind of snake appears in the video.
Dominica, a Caribbean paradise measuring just 29 miles long and 16 miles wide, has been dubbed 'the Nature Island' thanks to its array of wildlife.
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Own a pair of Tony Lama boots made from Boa
Most comfortable foot wear I own oyjer than flip flops
oyjer = other, but yall figured that out or didnt care
They should have had a bigger car. Who gets to ride in the back with the snake?
Sadly it looks like the snake was killed. Here is a video showing some large healthy anacondas swimming.
It might be the biggest snake KNOWN, but there is no way to know if is the “World’s biggest snake”.
A quick read of the beginning of the article I see ...
“...measuring just 29 miles long and 16 miles wide...”
I said to myself ... WTH that thing could swallow whole towns!
Then I saw it was the size of the island.
Hardly a crane when the folks outside are almost as tall as the cab.
Big snake... yeah but not the largest.
Deadly boa constrictor ping.
Idiot “journalists” don’t know the difference between a crane and an excavator.
This guy ain't very good at estimating. Looks to be closer to 10 meters.
I hope they didn’t hurt her.
12 or 13 feet long, tops.
Almost surely a female.
Not unusual for Boas of that area.
Forced perspective; it’s thing.
Pythons are Old World. It would be a boa in the Caribbean, unless it’s an escaped exotic.
Definitely looks like some kind of Boa locality, to me.
Alienware’s tech support is based in Costa Rica and the guys I’ve talked to [all wonderful] say that they are not allowed to own any native Boas, despite them being literally everywhere for the picking up and that the snake ownership laws are super strict everywhere in central America.
I can’t imagine how an old world python would even be there unless in a zoo or something.
Big girl, though but I’ve seen a bigger one, locally, in a reptile store.
I sent the story to a FReeper who will probably know what it is.
Will let y’all know.
Yeah. I’ve heard that I can’t have a Rubber Boa because they’re native. Haven’t researched it. We caught one when I was in elementary school, out by the playground.
It’s not like you’d have to announce that you grabbed one.
/you lucky dog, you!
OMG, they have a derpy “defense system” much like the hopeless Ball Pythons
Rubber boas can be preyed upon by almost any reasonably sized predator in their habitat.
When threatened, rubber boas curl into a ball around their head, and expose their tail to mimic their head.
While this is thought to be a primary defense technique against predators, it is not effective against many predators
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